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Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on February 1, 2010

I GOT SICK today. It is Saturday, January 23, 2010. I have been vacillating in my bed if I will go to work today or not. Wife Vilma is already up and went to the market minutes ago to buy something for breakfast. Youngest son, Cherokee, is feeding his pigeons while grandsons Jarod and little Gabriel are busy perfecting their Navy SEAL skills.


A knock on the door send the duo scurrying towards there ...

I am going to sort of retract my earlier blog post that we can absolutely do nothing here in the Philippines in case an earthquake strikes. Actually, we can do something, and it's something that the government can even implement ASAP. It can prove to be a confusing, disorderly and routine-disrupting affair, but if perfected, it can help save lives.

It's a very simple, age-old concept, borrowed from another potential hazard catastrophe scenario--fires. Yes, if the Philippine government ...

I've been reading a lot of posts/blogs from people discussing what would happen if a quake like the one that struck Japan recently would hit a major Philippine city (i.e. Metro Manila, Metro Cebu etc.), and that research has indicated ( http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...quake.cnn.html ) that major cities in the Philippines are FLAT-FOOTED-UNPREPARED for a quake like the Japan quake. Which means, over 50,000 people are expected to die if one of these ...

Most of you by now, have probably seen a videoclip of the horrific "Tsunami On Fire", part of devastating tsunami waves that slammed into Sendai/Miyagi province yesterday. If you have not seen it, the video can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwnxVIlWss (advance to 6 minutes, 11 seconds).

I wanted to know where this exact spot is...and after about 10 minutes of Wikimapia and Google Earth searching, eureka.

Here is a screenshot ...

THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD SAY TO 10 DIFFERENT PEOPLE RIGHT NOW (DON'T TELL US WHO IT IS):
1.) COME ON DARN IT,CONTACT ME!
2.) SO YOU WERE JUST PLAYING,HUH?
3.) YOU KNOW MY NUMBER,CALL ME!
4.) I'M STILL NOT SURE WHAT I FEEL ABOUT YOU...
5.) LAAG TA NA!
6.) WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
7.) KUYOG TA TAN-AW UG SINE!
8.) EFFORT LANG,PLEASE.
9.) PATAY KAAYO KO NIMU!
10.) I MISS YOU SO MUCH!='(

NINE THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF: ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 22, 2011

I STARED AT THE far expanse of the metropolis and all its neighboring islands as I stood on the ridge of the Babag Mountain Range. It's just another regular Sunday for me hiking alone on the trails. It is September 6, 2009 and this is my twenty-fifth session here. Oh, I just arrived yesterday from Iloilo, crossing two bodies of water – the Guimaras and Tañon straits – and a whole day of travelling by bus over the great Panay ...

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